Using OSX 10.2.3, I did a restart yesterday on my G3 (from the dialogue window, not a forced reboot) and when the machine came back on all my preferences were gone. Lost my homepage, as well as all my bookmarks and prefs on Safari. Entourage thinks it is starting up for the first time--wants to set up a new account. All my email hist is gone, including address book. Most preferences across the system seem to have reset to defaults. Desktop image went to the generic blue Mac image. The dock came up expanded to maximum size.
It is as thought I zapped the PRAM, though I did not do that. And all my mail files--a PRAM zap shouldn't affect those.
Anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is it possible the old mail files are stil in the computer, just not accessible for some reason? Where are they?
Someone suggested I could be running out of disk space, but I don't think that is the case. The computer was upgraded with a second hard drive recently. (I can't get in touch with my tech guy.)
Any help much appreciated.
It is as thought I zapped the PRAM, though I did not do that. And all my mail files--a PRAM zap shouldn't affect those.
Anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is it possible the old mail files are stil in the computer, just not accessible for some reason? Where are they?
Someone suggested I could be running out of disk space, but I don't think that is the case. The computer was upgraded with a second hard drive recently. (I can't get in touch with my tech guy.)
Any help much appreciated.